Brian Dessent wrote:
What you are seeing is a Windows console. It's provided by the
operating system for any executable that was marked as a console mode
app. It is not bash-specific and indeed bash (and cygwin1.dll) have
zero control over how it behaves or operates. If you want something
with more sophistication you need to use a different terminal, such as
rxvt, xterm, cygputty, poderosa, or console. But the default Windows
console does not require installing an X11 server or any other
external software which is why it's the default.
rxvt doesn't require an X11 server either! Try it! It's 100 times better
than the Windows "console window". Has better copy and paste semantics,
handles sigwinch and pays attention to X resources! Who could want
anything more?
Well me! I tried playing around with the -ip option to rxvt which says
inherit parent pixmap. This essentially allows you to have semi
transparent windows. Pretty cool. But the bad part is there doesn't seem
to be a way to control the amount of transparency. Anybody know if that
is possible? Also, if your background pixmap changes then rxvt doesn't
notice that.
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Andrew DeFaria <http://defaria.com>
Don't you hate when your hand falls asleep and you know it will be up
all night.
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